Happy New Year! A gift for my friends---thank you for your love and support.

[sabrinamari]

Today is the first day of the Year of the Rooster!

As a New Year's gift to my LJ friends, I offer the following websites and resources with which you may examine your year to come from the perspective of feng shui and Chinese Astrology.


*Your Animal Year and Predictions for the Coming Year*

To find out the name of animal year in which you were born (and what this means for your personality), go here: http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm

An explanatory quote from this page:

"The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.

The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart."

For predictions about how the Year of the Rooster may affect you personally, go here after you have determined your animal year. Two different analyses are provided:

http://www.dragon-gate.com/resources/fengshuitools/chineseAstrology/index.asp

http://www.wofs.com/fsw.php?load=arcview&article=625&c=miscellaneous



*Your Gua (Kua) Number*

To make things even more personally relevant, you will need to know your Gua (or Kua) number, which will then reveal which directions tend to have positive influences on you and which ones are potentially harmful for you.

To calculate your Gua (or Kua) number, go here:

http://www.dragon-gate.com/resources/fengshuitools/KuaCalculator/index.asp

For a practical example of how this information can be used, go here: http://www.dragon-gate.com/resources/fengshuitools/windandJade/index.asp and read the first question and its answer.



*Your Combined Chinese and Western Astrological Sign*

You can look at how the combination of your Chinese and Western astrological signs affect your character and personality (for example, I am a Scorpio Rabbit). For a cursory introduction to this astrological approach using web-based resources, go to these sites:

http://fortunesnow.com/library/zodiac.asp#combined

http://www.asiaflash.com/rao/combin01.shtml

http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Rabbit.htm


Happy New Year!

Comments

[jr0124.livejournal.com]

A couple items of potential interest about Chinese Astrology:

The date of the New Year might change what sign you are. I was born 1/24/1971. The usual association for 1971 is the boar but the ney year in 1971 fell on January 26th. It turns out I'm actually the dog.

There are also elemental associations for the full 60-year cycle. The elements used in traditional chinese astrology are metal, water, wood, fire, and earth.

If you check out: http://www.tuvy.com/entertainment/chinese_horoscope.htm they list the years with the associated elements. If you click on the specific year you will be taken to a page that lists the exact dates for that year.

Thank you for posting all of these links! I plan to explore them in a lot more depth as soon as possible!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is useful! Thanks---I'll check it out today.

A Lot of Information!

[wild-place-king.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all of the research. I plan to go through all of it when I am not in the office. I discovered that I am an Aries, Fire-Pig.

That should be no surprise to anyone!

Re: A Lot of Information!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I hadn't yet realized that I would get to look up all my friends as a side benefit of this post---cool! I'll look you and ingridsummers up tonight. : )

Re: A Lot of Information!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are clearly an Aries Fire Pig.

Combined Scopes

[ingridsummers.livejournal.com]

I like this idea. I've often combined them in my head, since both have always seemed appropriate.

I'm a SAGITTARIUS RAT: Open and sometimes outspoken, the Sagittarius rats know what they want and stop at nothing to get it! They are peppy and full of energy and usually keep their more sad and depressed feelings bottled up inside. Full of determination, they never give up.

This really does seem to discribe me.

Re: Combined Scopes

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Now that I know what your combined sign is, I'm going to go read up on it myself. I'm very curious about my friends!

Re: Combined Scopes

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I agree---in the parenting description as well as in other aspects. I disagree that you just "sail through life," though. But in other respects, it seems pretty accurate.

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

I just posted a long bitchy message at the other entry, so I figured I'd better pop in here to say I'm really enjoying all these feng shui posts, I'm reading most of the links, I'm learning a lot. :-)

The Kua calculator was especially useful for the lazy in me. >:-)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like them! Can you post your combined sign so that I can go read up about you? I'm always eager to learn this kind of stuff about my friends.

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

It would be "Leo Monkey," but I didn't think the description fit particularly well. Apparently I'm an "Earth Monkey," too, and that description doesn't even come close. :-)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I will look anyway, just in case it's useful later. You never know.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

And these descriptions do not fit you in what way? (slightly incredulous tones)

"LEO MONKEY: Direct, candid, and witty, we are often charmed by this personality which excels at story telling. Ignore this personality at your own potential peril!"

I think this is an excellent description: you are very, very direct, you are often witty and further, you use your wit in both fun *and* dangerous ways; you are quite charming when you want to be, often end up in a spotlight and you are pretty much impossible to ignore.

"LEONINE MONKEY
These Monkeys need to be liked and supported. They thrive from attention and love to be head turners. Generally, these Monkeys are wonderful at showing off their talents and their beauty."

If you are not a head turner, then I don't know who is. You draw attention when you enter a room, often employ your droll, dry wit to keep it, you are marvelously creative and talented and very much a show stopper when you want to be. As for needing to be liked and supported---that I don't know yet. I expect I'll find out. But you do have a tight support group that appears to be quite important to you.

Just my thoughts.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Other impressions: I suspect the Leo fire, combined with the quick-witted monkey, quite overwhelms the influence of earth in your chart. I don't think the earth element hardly has a chance in that company. If anything, it might ground you a little bit more than you would otherwise be.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

"Monkeys can run circles around other people with ease. They are curious and clever people who catch on quickly to most anything. Monkey people generally can accomplish any given task. They appreciate difficult or challenging work as it stimulates them and makes them think."

Oh for god's sake, this is so you!

[effloresense.livejournal.com]

I would be an Aries Fire Snake. Wheeeeee.

With such the overabundance of fire in pretty much *all* astrologies for me (Western has 5 planets and my ascendant in fire as well), most would never guess I'm such a shy, quiet, introverted person. :-p

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

smiling---this will give me a chance to learn something potentially useful about you---always a good thing. So you're multiply fiery, huh?

[dawningday.livejournal.com]

I am a Taurus Metal Rooster. Or Taurus Metal Cock, as the placemats at so many of the Chinese restaurants I go to would have it. Taken the wrong way, you'd think my penis was a giant metal doughnut.

Donut

[ingridsummers.livejournal.com]

Donut? No never that. Perhaps something a bit more pointy?

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

OK, this was a really silly image---I confess that I enjoyed it! But I promise to remember that your penis isn't actually a giant metal donut (big smile).

[cernunnos1956.livejournal.com]

CAPRICORN GOAT: Capricorn goats are practical and opportunistic. They relish financial wealth and status. They are usually successful in careers but find it hard to be open with others in emotional matters.

Gua number is 9

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thanks for telling me. As an anthropologist, I can barely control my curiosity about the people I meet, and especially my friends.